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Michael Todd
National Senior Director of Marketing & Communications, Reading Partners
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This unprecedented gift is a huge win for early literacy in this country, which remains a widespread and critical challenge we have a responsibility to address as a society.

The grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow us to expand our online tutoring program Reading Partners Connects.

Reading Partners has been featured in the Holiday Impact Prize created by former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

We are thrilled to welcome experienced education leader, Phillip M. Robinson, Jr., as Reading Partners’ first-ever chief impact officer.

Kelli Doss, a talent specialist and professional coach, spent her career focused on serving youth, communities, and education systems.

Rosa J. Gutierrez is Reading Partners’ new Chief Financial & Operating Officer. She will lead on business functions and financial and capital resources.

Award-winning television director and author Jeffrey Blount will bring his experience and an equity focus to Reading Partners as a national board member.

Our Black History Month book list is a full year of books honoring Black history by authors who share the identity of the main characters in their books. 

The Equity Lab announced the 28 leaders who will make up the 2021-22 cohort of the selective Nexus Fellowship, including two of our own staff members.

Reading Partners is hosting a national conversation about race and educational equity with author and Emmy award winner, Jeffrey Blount.

Social distancing, text messaging, and proven programming meet to bridge the digital divide and bring literacy support to students as schools are closed.

#ReadingMatters2020 booklist aims to empower parents to prioritize reading amidst US literacy crisis
Oakland, California, Feb. 24, 2020 (GLOBE…

SAN RAMON, Calif. (Jan. 16, 2020) – Armanino LLP, one of the 25 largest accounting and business consulting firms in the U.S., today announced the…

Reading Partners is proud to share the results of a two-year study conducted across California by Child Trends.

Augenblick, Palaich, and Associates (APA) finds that Reading Partners drives significant student impact on critical literacy skills

Oakland, CA,…

Kevin Capitani, President of Pearson North America, has joined the national board of Reading Partners, a proven nonprofit literacy organization in 14 regions across the country.

Nolene Fabre, a talented and highly compassionate financial leader joins Reading Partners as Chief Financial Officer of the national nonprofit literacy organization.

The Ballmer Group invests $1 million to support Reading Partners’ proven literacy interventions which help low-income students become strong readers and confident learners.

The White House budget proposal to eliminate national service funding would critically impair Reading Partners and other essential nonprofits.

Reading Partners relies on national service funding for AmeriCorps positions including site coordinators, literacy leads, and volunteer coordinators.

Reading Partners is thrilled to announce the appointment of Karine Apollon, formerly of Scholastic, as the organization’s new CEO effective February 1, 2017.

More than four out of five students met or achieved their literacy goals with Reading Partners in 2015-16. The volunteer-led tutoring program is also being showcased at the White House My Brother’s Keeper What Works Showcase to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model.

Reading Partners has announced its first major leadership transition since the organization’s inception over a decade ago.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Michelle Torgerson of Reading Partners Bay Area, launch an exciting local literacy initiative – LIFT10.

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CONTACT: Christy Dobbs, (510) 214-3920, christy.dobbs@readingpartners.org

Reading Partners announces appointment of four…

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Reading Partners names Dr. Robert Simmons vice…

Margie Thirlby has been named executive director of Reading Partners Colorado.

Reading Partners, a national nonprofit organization that empowers students to succeed in reading and in life by engaging community volunteers to…

Gold standard research finds Reading Partners’ evidence-based curriculum and volunteer tutoring program improves reading proficiency and multiplies…

(New York, June 3, 2014) — MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, released encouraging findings today from a…

National Literacy Nonprofit Joins Local Effort to Expand
Educational Opportunity in Oklahoma

Oakland, CA—July 11, 2013—National education…

June 12, 2013—Denver, CO—National education nonprofit Reading Partners announced today that it received a $75,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to…

Reading Partners Inaugural Silicon Valley Celebrity Spelling Bee Pits Business, Philanthropic, and Political Leaders in Spelling…

The Baltimore Ravens win at Super Bowl XLVII earned Baltimore City Public School students class time with the mayors
 

Oakland, CA—April…

Barry Bonds Family Foundation and Reading Partners Announce Collaboration to Improve Childhood Literacy in Oakland
Home Run King’s Foundation…

Mayor Rawlings-Blake Celebrates Launch of Volunteer-Powered Literacy Initiative in Coordination With School District and Reading…

Greenloons Spearheads National Book Drive to Benefit Reading Partners, an AmeriCorps Literacy Program

Vienna, VA, December 4, 2012 -…

Reading Partners Launches New Reading Center at San Jose Unified School District’s Lowell Elementary School
The national childhood literacy program…

$75,000 from The Rose Hills Foundation and Focusing Philanthropy Will Support Reading Partners Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA–National education…

Oakland, CA October 4, 2012 — Today Focusing Philanthropy announced that they will feature Reading Partners as a “best-in-class” education…

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Mayor Mike Rawlings will Compete with Local Celebrities
 

DALLAS (October 2, 2012) – Reading Partners, a national…

New grant expands collaboration and impact of Reading Partners and the Sacramento READS! Campaign
Sacramento, CA – Wells Fargo, Reading Partners,…

Charleston Wins Competitive Third Grade Reads Grant From Cities of Service and Service Nation
Mayor Riley to lead volunteer-powered literacy…

New grant will fund K-5 reading programs throughout Silicon Valley
Milpitas, CA — Reading Partners and the Sobrato Family Foundation today announced…

Grant helps launch Reading Partners Los Angeles Growth Initiative
Los Angeles, CA June 25, 2012 — Reading Partners and the Weingart Foundation…